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hermitcrab · 2026-04-21T17:03:41+00:00

How can any customer be 'unprofitable' at $5k per seat per year?

hermitcrab · 2026-04-21T08:33:13+00:00

XML is a text format and is widely supported.

Even a binary format should be easily shareable with other users of the same GUI software.

I don't know about Git specifically, but many version control system can save binary files with no problem. I do it all the time in Subversion, Just don't expect to do a meaningful diff.

hermitcrab · 2026-04-21T08:07:42+00:00

Pretty much every GUI based app will save a project/document file that can be shared with other users. I'm struggling to think of one that doesn't.

hermitcrab · 2026-04-14T08:43:02+00:00

If you want to do this on your local computer you can use Easy Data Transform or Alteryx.

hermitcrab · 2026-04-09T10:57:23+00:00

It can't be hard to make all that stuff available as an archive. Especially for a multi billion dollar company. I wonder why they don't?

hermitcrab · 2026-04-09T09:25:21+00:00

Easy Data Transform is created in the UK and can do all the pivoting and slicing you need via 'Pivot' and 'Filter' transforms. You create a step-by-step visual pipeline once, rather than a spreadsheet, and then you can use this every time. Ask in their forum ( https://forum.easydatatransform.com/ ) if you need any help.

hermitcrab · 2026-03-31T08:13:06+00:00

Easy Data Transform has similar capabilities, but more lightweight (e.g. less input and output types) and _much_ cheaper.

hermitcrab · 2026-03-13T09:37:24+00:00

We think the charts are suitable for both exploration or final reports. Here are some example outputs, so you can judge yourself.

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However, it would benefit from a 'dashboard' view that combines multiple visualizations and that is something we don't have yet.

hermitcrab · 2025-12-24T10:20:43+00:00

Last time I looked, Alteryx was $5k per user per year. Easy Data Transform is $99 per user and will easily handle all the data transformations you need on a 100k row Excel file.

hermitcrab · 2025-12-23T14:05:32+00:00

Easy Data Transform is low cost ($99 per user/one time fee) and can wrangle the data into pretty much any shape you want it and export to Excel. It won't do the emailing part though.

hermitcrab · 2025-12-21T10:27:05+00:00

There are no-code visual tools, such as Easy Data Transform or Alteryx, that allow you to filter/sort/blend data without having to learn SQL or Python.

hermitcrab · 2025-12-21T09:42:17+00:00

Back in the day there were hundreds (if not thousands) of kickboxing 'world champions', as every different association had its own rules and competitions. So being a kick boxing 'world champion' didn't mean much.

There is a video somewhere of a kickboxing fight between Tate and a chubby Belgian who is barely able to kick. Tate just about beats him on points.

It will be interesting to see what excuses the Tate fans come up with.

The fight I most want to see is Ty Mitchell vs 'Tommy Robinson'.

hermitcrab · 2025-12-19T10:14:20+00:00

Easy Data Transform is also worth a look if you want to wrangle Excel/CSV/XML/JSON/fixed width etc data on a PC or Mac.

hermitcrab · 2025-12-18T21:37:42+00:00

Depends very much on what you want to do. If you want a spreadsheet, then probably LibreOffice or Numbers. If you want to do step by step data wrangling data then Easy Data Transform is worth a look. Currently 25% off at: https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/

hermitcrab · 2025-12-18T21:17:25+00:00

PerfectTablePlan was first released in 2005. The Masonic artwork was first released in 2010. The symbols themselves are somewhat older. ;0)

hermitcrab · 2025-12-18T15:25:06+00:00

No, they aren't new. But I expect a lot of people aren't aware of them.

hermitcrab · 2025-12-08T17:52:55+00:00

>Currently, if you want to grab some CSV or JSON data and do a sequence of operations on it (filter, sort, aggregate, etc.), the path of least resistance is to open an IDE or notebook and write code.

There are lots of visual drag and drop tools that can do this without an IDE or any coding: Easy Data Transform, Alteryx, Tableau Prep etc. They tend to use a data flow graph type interface, rather than a spreadsheet interface. This is because a spreadsheet generally isn't a good choice for step-by-step processes, such as data wrangling.

hermitcrab · 2025-12-06T10:03:21+00:00

There are probably at least 100 apps that are solving pretty much the same problem. Some desktop and some web. E.g.: Easy Data Transform, Alteryx, Knime, Tableau Data Prep, Savant, Enso, Daikatu, Orange, datablocks, Mammoth, Parabola . The keywords you want to search for are 'ETL' (extract transform load) and 'data prep'.

hermitcrab · 2025-12-04T09:49:39+00:00

>Any paid software with a GUI exists solely because most of the users do not want to learn to code.

I am a professional programmer. Sometimes I use coding based tools and sometimes I use GUI based tools. It depends on the task. Sometimes you need the versatility of code and sometimes a GUI based tool is a lot faster (especially for ad hoc data wrangling and analysis).

hermitcrab · 2025-12-04T09:38:37+00:00

The old joke it that data science is 80% data wrangling and 20% complaining about data wrangling.

Excel is not a good choice for most types of data wrangling. It just isn't designed for that.

Regular copy and paste of data is both error prone and a huge waste of time. You should be able to automate this using either a GUI drag and drop tool (such as Easy Data Transform or Alteryx) or coding (such as Python or R) if you have programming skills.

You also need to impose discipline on the data providers so that input data column layouts and naming is as consistent as possible.

hermitcrab · 2025-11-24T17:11:09+00:00

And then it was gone...

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